Diye se diya jalao!
November 11, 2023
Welcome, readers! Wish you all a 'Shubh Deepavali'! I hope you are enjoying this amazing festival with great pomp and show. I am celebrating with great enthusiasm as well. This Diwali, I want to share – or, let me correct that, reshare – a piece of content that touches my heart every time I watch it. Welcome to 'A Piece of My Learning.'
This particular content I am referring to is part of an advertisement campaign that HP created two years ago. Each time I watch it, I find a whole new learning from it. Please take a few minutes to watch this advertisement before proceeding further.
Aapke aankh mein bhi kuch gaya na? It makes me cry each and every time. What a superb concept. Each advertisement tells a story, and what we gain from it is all up to us. If you think about it, there was hardly any product promotion in this 5-minute video. However, the story conveyed is so powerful. What do you learn from this advertisement? You can comment below.
As I mentioned, I have many learnings from this particular advertisement, but what I want to talk about in today's blog is continuing the so-called ripple effect of kindness.
Kindness is such a beautiful virtue. If you experience it, it will put a bright smile on your face. While we don't intend to break this cycle of kindness, we get so engrossed in our hustles and issues that we forget to pay it forward.
The only way we can develop a compassionate world is through forwarding the act of kindness. Has someone held a door open for you? Complimented you in any way? Lent you a helping hand? All these are acts of kindness that need to be paid forward.
So, how can you and I do it? It is a very simple 2-step process. In this blog, I am not going to discuss starting this cycle of kindness; we will discuss it some other time. Today, I just ask you to continue this cycle or 'pay it forward' when you experience it.
The next time someone holds a door open for you, compliments you, lends you a helping hand, or you experience an act of kindness, the first thing you should do is express heartfelt gratitude by giving a genuine smile and saying thank you. The second thing, as I mentioned, is continuing it. If someone compliments you, you can continue it by doing any simple act of kindness for any stranger or close people in your life. That's it. We won't even realize, and this world will transform into a world full of empathy and kindness.
If I have to explain this in a unique way, imagine that kindness is an electric current. The next time you touch a source of current and get electrocuted, don't be a ground and just absorb all of it. Rather, become a conductor and shock the next person who comes in contact with you.
As a matter of coincidence, I wrote this blog yesterday and experienced this today itself. An old lady complimented the dress I was wearing. I got to pay it forward by helping another person at the checkout line. As the title suggests, 'Diye se diya jalate hai and saari duniya mein roshni failate hai.' Let me translate, 'Let us light up an oil lamp using an oil lamp and spread light across the whole world.'
If you like this analogy, you can share this blog and this powerful message forward. Thank you all for being kind readers. Shubh Deepavali once again.
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